Ok, I haven't written any actual full stories for quite some times, so I make no guarantees that this is any good but I needed to get it out of my head and onto paper. authors warning: this is sam and daniel fic! If you dont like that, you probably dont want to read this... Rated 'MA' just to be safe. Nothing too bad yet, but mature themes coming in later chapters.

Thanks to chris4short for prodding me to keep at it, and also, it's all her fault if this is too long, she is making me keep going. :-)

now, onto the fic

"So how's it going, Daniel?" I asked, trying not to sound like I was rushing him. Daniel hates being rushed.

"Hmmm? Did you say something Sam?" he asked, his back to her, examining some wall carvings.

"I asked how it was going. We are supposed to meet up with Teal'c, Mitchell and Vala in about an hour and it's at least a twenty minute walk to the village." I explained to him.

Finally glancing back at me where I was standing guard, he replied, "well that gives us another forty minutes then, right? I want to finish etching this section here. " He flashed his boyish grin at me, the one he used when he was studying something, and wanted more time.

Dang it, I hate it when he does that "Fine Daniel, we've got time I guess. It doesn't look like we are going to have any trouble from the other villages that they warned us about in town. And if Mitchell and Teal'c ran into any trouble, we would have heard I'm sure."

"Thanks Sam," I heard him mumble, already back to his work.

I just smiled, and turned my attention back to watching the surrounding forest. When we arrived yesterday, the locals in the village near the stargate told us about the ruins, and that there were little tribes of people that were known to be in the area, and not have very good attitudes about strangers.

This morning, Daniel and I had headed off for the ruins, leaving the rest of the team to explore the village and talk to the locals.

I was snapped out of my thoughts by a sudden noise coming from the woods to my left.

"Daniel, did you hear that?" I whispered, while raising my weapon.

I glanced back to him and saw that he did hear it as well, since he was walking towards me, his weapon in hand. As he reached my side, he paused, listening.

Crack The sound of snapping branches came again, closer this time.

There was definitely someone nearby. If it were one of the guys, they would have radioed ahead. Gotta be someone else. Hope it's a nice someone else I thought to myself.

As if in answer my thoughts, something flew past Daniels head and hit the wall he had just been standing at. "What the hell was that?"

A few other objects headed our direction, so we dove down, taking cover behind some fallen logs. "We need more cover, we need to make it to the ruins," I said, glancing back at them. For some reason, they seemed a lot further away now.

"I don't know what's inside yet. I've only worked on the wall, remember?"

Another object-some kind of tiny arrows- hit the tree very close to me. "We aren't going to be safe here for long."

Daniel looked at the arrow, and nodded. "The entrance is off to the side over there," he said, pointing.

"Ok, let's fire a couple rounds to surprise them, and make a run for it." We raised our weapons carefully over the log, and let out short bursts of ammo. Hearing a few cries of shock or pain, we stood and make a break for it.

Just as we were reaching the entrance, I felt a stinging sensation in my arm, but kept moving. We got inside, and shoved the heavy door closed together. "Are there any other entrances to this place?" My arm was really starting to hurt now.

"I don't think so, but I didn't check all the other areas. We better do a sweep to be sure after we brace this door." There were a couple large tables in the room, so we slid them to the door, so it couldn't be pushed open from the outside.

After the door was blocked, we began searching the rest of the room for entrances. We found none, but found a hall, possibly leading to other chambers, and maybe other doors.

We turned the lights atop our weapons on, and shone them down the dark hall.

"Looks like a few other rooms, maybe more. We better split up and check them all fast," I suggested.

Daniel agreed, and we moved together down the hall. We reached to rooms across from each other, and parted to check them out. Shining my light around the room, I saw it was empty, and didn't see anything that looked like a door. Stepping back into the hall, I called to Daniel. "Anything in there?"

"Nope, empty," he replied, stepping out. His eyes dropped to my arm as we were talking. "Sam, you're bleeding!"

I had forgotten about it while we were trying to get safe, and now that I glanced down, I noticed my sleeve covered in blood. "Oh, yeah. I got grazed by one of those arrow things. I forgot about it until now, its not that bad though."

"We better clean and bandage it." Knowing I was going to argue, he kept on. "You don't want it to get infected, and it won't take that long. We can finish searching after I take care of you."

Sighing, I removed my vest, and pushed up my sleeve, exposing the wound.

"Sam, this looks bad. It looks like its getting infected already."

"No, it couldn't be." I glanced down, and noticed small red streaks running down my arm starting at the wound. "That's not possible. It takes infection a lot longer then a few minutes to form."

"Well that may be true, but this still doesn't look good." He reached down into his pack, and grabbed the first aid kit we all carried. Opening the bottle of antiseptic, he reached for my arm. "This is probably gonna sting."

"Thanks Daniel, I think I can handle it," I joked back. "Ow! That does sting," I said as he poured it on.

"I warned you."

"Funny."

He wrapped a bandage around my arm, and then carefully lowered my sleeve. "There, that wasn't so bad, was it?" He said, smiling.

"Thanks. Now we better get back to searching, we don't want those guys to get in."

He agreed, and after helping me put my vest back on, he put his pack back on, and pointed his light down the hall. We walked for a bit in silence, then stopped as we came to more rooms. "Which one you want?"

I gestured to the one to my right, and stepped in. He went into the left one. On my first look, this room didn't seem any different then the last one-dark and empty. Then I moved my light along the floor, and noticed what appeared to be a small hole in the floor. "Weird," I said to myself as I walked towards it. As I got near the edge, I heard a strange cracking noise. I looked around, but saw nothing, so kept going. I reached the edge, and glanced down. It was a round hole in the floor, not very big, and very dark. Leaning closer, I shined my light down it. Nothing but darkness as far as I could see. As I was about to call to Daniel to come look at it, I heard the noise again, followed by the ground moving under my feet.

"Sam, did you hear that noise?" he asked, stepping into the doorway.

Realizing what was happening as I glanced down, I yelled at him to stop. "Don't move, Daniel. The floor is breaking up by this hole over here." Carefully, I took a slow step backwards; the ground crumbling beneath my feet. Stopping again, I saw a piece of the floor fall into the hole.

"Sam, I need to get you out of there." He took a step forward, while simultaneously dropping his pack. More of the floor crumbled into the hole.

"Stop! It's getting worse. I'm gonna try and make a run for it back to you." Turning, I took one step, the only one I would get. The ground shook, and the floor disappeared beneath my feet.

"Sam!" I glanced up, and saw a shocked look on Daniel's face just before I dropped into the darkness.

I braced myself for whatever I was going to hit at the bottom. A moment later, I splashed into freezing water. Shocked, I opened my mouth, and water rushed in. Choking, I tried to swim to the top. As my head popped above water, I was coughing, water in my lungs. "Daniel?" I tried to cry out, with little success.

I looked up just in time to see a few more pieces of floor flying towards me. I tried to dodge them all, but a couple hit me, striking my head and body. "OW!"

"Sam! Sam, can you hear me?" Daniel was leaning over the edge now, shining his light down.

"Yea, I'm ok. It's full of water," I explained. "Any ideas how I'm gonna get the hell out of here?" I asked, before coughing some more.

"I've got a rope in my pack, it should be long enough. I'll toss it down, and pull you up."

"Ok, just be careful. We'll both be stuck if the floor collapses any more. And hurry, this water is freezing."

Daniel disappeared from the edge, and came back a minute later. "I'm lowering the rope now. Just tie it around yourself and I'll pull you up."

The rope appeared a few moments later, and I slowly and carefully tied it around my waist. I gave it a short tug, and he started to pull me out.

A couple minutes later, I was near the edge, and Daniel reached his hand out to me. I grabbed it and he pulled me out of the hole, and dragged me back from it.

He let go of me as we got back into the hall, and got the rope off of me.

I was coughing more now, and he shone his light on me. "Are you ok?" I could hear the concern in his voice.

"I swallowed a lot of water, and some of the rocks hit me, but I think I'm ok." I tried to say more, but just coughed instead, and started shaking.

Daniel touched my arm. "You're freezing. We need to get you warmed up."

I nodded, and noticed that my head was really starting to hurt. Raising my hand to my head, I felt a bump forming. "An aspirin wouldn't hurt, either," I joked.

"Let's go back to the main room. There's more light and room there for me to check you out." Before I could protest, he cut me off. "If those guys could get in here, they would have by now. We need to take care of you."

I nodded. Trying to stand, I failed, and collapsed, getting caught by Daniel before I hit the floor. "Thanks. I got kind of dizzy. I'm ok now," I said. I expected him to let go, but he held on for a moment before letting go and looking me over again.

"Ok, just take it slow."

We made it a few feet down the hall before everything started to spin in front of me. I stopped, and put my hand out to brace myself. "Daniel, I don't feel so…" Before I could finish my sentence, everything went dark around me.

To be continued...